{"id":4779,"date":"2025-06-20T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:02:22","slug":"no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>News broke today of a &#8220;mother of all breaches,&#8221; sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked\u00a0credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach News broke today of a &#8220;mother of all breaches,&#8221; sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked\u00a0credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}